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The SOHS Sawyer Collection

The images presented here are part of a donation we are calling the Sawyer Collection. The images have come from multiple photography studios, some of them unidentified. Most were taken by the Kiser Studio of Portland, Oregon in the 'Teens and early 'Twenties, especially of rugged scenes in Crater Lake and Glacier National Parks and along the Columbia River. A small collection was taken 1905-07 by photographer H. G. Peabody of Massachusetts and Maine urban and coastal scenes. An anonymous collection portrays architectural and rural views taken in Central Mexico in the same era.

The collection was saved and cared for by William Gruber, who had a long working relationship with the Portland photography studio Sawyer Service Inc. Gruber was the inventor of the popular View-Master, which he produced in collaboration with Sawyer’s. According to the donor, in 1939 Sawyer’s was poised to dispose of these glass plate negatives in order to focus on the View-Master, when Gruber offered to take the plates. Over the past eight decades, the Gruber family has meticulously maintained the collection of approximately 3,000 plates, weighing roughly half a ton. Southern Oregon Historical Society received the plates as a donation in 2019, and has made them publicly available with additional grant funding from Oregon Parks and Recreation and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

 SAWYER COLLECTION INDEX        WILLIAM GRUBER       WHEN THE COLLECTION ARRIVED AT SOHS     

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SWY2064

Glacier National Park--Head of Lake McDonald
SWY2065

Lake McDonald--Sunset
SWY2066

Lake Louise from Gunsight Pass
SWY2067

Lake McDonald--Shoreline, Lake Louise
SWY2068

Lake McDonald--Sunset, Lake Louise
SWY2069

Lake McDonald--Mt Jackson from Lincoln Peak
SWY2070

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Summit of Mt Jackson
SWY2071

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2072

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2073

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2074

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2075

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2076

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2077

Glacier--Lake McDonald--The Little Matterhorn
SWY2078

Lake McDonald--Looking North from Summit of Fusillade Mountain
SWY2079

Looking Southeast from Summit of Fusillade Mountain
SWY2080

Lake McDonald--as Seen from near Sperry Glacier
SWY2081

Lake McDonald--Lincoln Peak
SWY2082

Lake McDonald--Lincoln Peak Showing Pack Train on East Side of Pass
SWY2083

Glacier--Lake McDonald--Gunsight Lake Looking Toward Gunsight Pass
SWY2084

Unlabeled
SWY2085

Lake McDonald Looking East from Gunsight Lake
SWY2086

Glacier--Lake Mcdonald--Gunsight Lake & Mt Jackson
SWY2087

Glacier--Mt Jackson Overlooking Gunsight Lake
SWY2088

Lake McDonald Looking Northwest from Gunsight Pass
SWY2089

Lake McDonald Looking Northeast from Gunsight Pass
SWY2090

Glacker--Lake McDonald Climbing on Blackfoot Glacier
SWY2091

Lake McDonald--Summit of Gunsight Mountain
SWY2092

Lake McDonald--Gunsight Mountain from Lincoln Pass
SWY2093

Lake McDonald--Pack Train Ascending Gunsight Pass
SWY2094

Lake McDonald--Pack Train Ascending Gunsight Pass
SWY2095

Lake McDonald--Pack Train on Gunsight Pass
SWY2097

Little Chief Mountain & St Mary Creek--Lake McDonald
SWY2098

Lake McDonald--Head of St Mary Lake
SWY2099

Lake McDonald--Head of St Mary Lake
SWY2100

Lake McDonald--Fusillade Mountain Telephoto from St Mary Meadows
SWY2101

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Fusillade Mountain Telephoto from St Mary Meadows
SWY2102

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Fusillade Mountain Telephoto from St Mary Meadows
SWY2103

Glacier National Park--Lake McDonald, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain from St Mary Lake
SWY2104

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Avalanche Basin
SWY2105

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Rim of Avalanche Basin
SWY2106

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Avalanche Lake and Basin from Sperry Glacier
SWY2107

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Avalanche Lake and Basin
SWY2108

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Avalanche Lake and Basin
SWY2109

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Cabins at Hotel Glacier
SWY2110

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Log Cabin Dining Room, Glacier Hotel
SWY2112

Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald--Interior Club Room, Glacier Hotel
SWY2113

Lake Chelan, Washington--Looking Down the Stehekin Canyon from Cascade Pass
SWY2114

Cascade Pass Looking South from Snowfields of Mt Sahale, Washington
SWY2115

Flathead Lake, Montana Shoreline Showing J. Roderick\'s Orchard